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These are excellent films which should not be hidden away in vaults. Their makers deserve all the support and publicity that more publicity-minded but not necessarily more excellent film-makers of Harvard have monopolized for too long, and to everyone's detriment...
...Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President is likely to be more an asset than a detriment to Humphrey -and even Texas could turn out to be G.O.P. territory...
...dismay of Cuba's city dwellers, the Castro revolution has been strictly a rural phenomenon. More than 30% of Cuba's gross national product is reinvested in the earth to the planned detriment of the city dweller. As a result, more than half of the 50,000 Cubans fleeing annually are Habaneros. They have taken with them most of the liveliness that once made Havana the "Paris of the Caribbean...
World of Work. The reform is long overdue. During the post-Sputnik era, so much fanfare was given to college preparation that shop training was neglected-to the detriment of millions of youngsters who had neither the wish nor the wherewithal for higher education. One million students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. Out of every five pupils who entered fifth grade in 1957, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only one has stuck it out to pick up his diploma next year. At the same time, only one in four is receiving vocational training in high...
...resources. The resulting budget and balance-of-payments deficits are promoting inflation. Higher taxes would attack these problems, and so would reducing expenditures at home or abroad. Business wants to see the main emphasis on the latter course because it avoids the risk of expanding government to the detriment of the more productive private sector of the economy. What the economy needs most right now is a sense-making approach to income and outgo in the federal budget...